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SUMMARY:Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and 
 the case of colour history - Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Be
 rlin)
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CONTACT:Jacob Stegenga
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge about colour has been developed and used in all cult
 ures for millennia. To study the history of such knowledge requires a broa
 d approach that encompasses a variety of forms of knowledge\, of communiti
 es\, and of modes and media of transmission. Colour knowledge thus provide
 s a significant case for studying the necessity\, the merits and the limit
 s of history of knowledge and its relation to history of science. In my ta
 lk\, I shall focus on 18th-century Europe\, a period in which different ap
 proaches to colour expanded their knowledge claims and came into conflict 
 and sometimes fierce clash. These conflicts originated in different episte
 mic frameworks and practical goals\, pursued in different groups of colour
  researchers. Studying their history is highly instructive for both enligh
 tenment colour history and the historiographical challenges in doing histo
 ry of knowledge.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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